The site will be down for maintenance on May 18 at 12:01 AM PST (midnight). Estimated downtime is 2 hours. As a software architect I am always curious when any online service goes down for not inconsequential time whether it is possible to so architect that system that all upgrades are hot with no ...

Hi Samantha, You're referring to Intel's Distributed Scene Graph module. We may offer such a service in the future but have no current plans to do so. Yes, that is the one. Perhaps if I get the time for the project I will attempt to produce a standalone on EC2 wired up for such. It would cost next ...

I think it should be totally market and per item driven. Basically whatever value users put on being able to use a particular item outside Kitely. So I think the question is incapable of being answered with any particular amount or at least that no amount or percentage should be predetermined across...

Hi Serendipity, I understand your objection but there isn't much I can do about it. Your definition of mundane mature behavior (e.g. taking a shower in the nude inside your world) falls into the Adult category in several of our main target markets. It is completely irrelevant whether I agree with y...

Hi Samantha, We serve an international crowd with a focus on complying with laws and conventions used in mostly English-speaking Western countries (which is were most of our user base is located). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pornography_laws_by_country and the articles linked to from ...

Hi Serendipity, There is no problem with people in bikinies French kissing in a Moderate world but having them have virtual sex in a skybox is not enough to keep the world Moderate and not Adult. If an underage user can cam-around to view the sex scene then the world exposed that user to age-inappr...

It sounds as if the real question is not "what do we think it should be?", or "what makes sense?", but rather "what is safe for the business?" Please explain to me what you can be sued for if a Moderate rated skin in Kitely marketplace shows a nipple. A world where nothing is allowed but what offen...

The Maturity Ratings are messed up. Adult is described as worlds with nudity or violence. Yet Moderate precludes even nudity or sexual activity behind closed doors. Even having furniture or clothes or animations that are rated Adult has been said to be forbidden and perhaps enforced by code in the f...

The trouble in a nutshell is that what is defined as "Moderate" by Kitely seems to many of us and perhaps to majority of Kitely customers to be not "Moderate" but closer to "Puritantical". To many "Moderate" means you would expect to see anything "in the open" on a world that you couldn't see on the...